Aunt Lin


Summary: With things settling down after Kuvira's arrest, Chief Lin Beifong must now get used to her new role as an aunt since Opal would like to spend more time with her. Oneshot collection.


Break-Up

Chief Lin Beifong mumbled to herself as she looked over at the pile of papers on her desk. She sighed happily when she felt the cool breeze come in through the open window. She pulled out a few pens from her desk drawer, before moving the top paper from the stack. She had just started to write on the paper until she was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Come in," she called out.

The door creaked open slowly and Mako took a step into the office.

"Chief, Opal is here to see you," he explained.

Lin rolled her eyes and sighed hard. "Thanks to Su, her children think they can do whataver they want outside of their own city," she mumbled. "Tell her I'm busy and I can't just stop my work whenever she needs me."

"It looks important," Mako said while stepping aside. Opal rushed into the room, with tears streaming down her cheeks. Her nose was a bright red and her eyes looked more green as they swam with tears.

"You may go," Lin instructed over to Mako. He nodded once before leaving the room and shutting the door behind him. "What's wrong Opal?" she asked. Lin grunted in surprise as Opal threw herself into her aunt's arms. Lin patted the top of her head lightly before pushing her off.

"I think Bolin is breaking up with me?" she whimpered.

Lin blinked. "So? You can do better."

Opal quickly pushed herself out of her aunt's arms and glared. "You're not supposed to tell me that." The wind quickly picked up outside of the window and blew a huge gust of air into the room. It picked up the stack of papers and blew them around the room.

"Okay, okay. Calm down," Lin said. She got up out of her seat and walked across the room to pour her niece a cup of tea. "What happened?"

"We just finished watching a mover." Opal sniffed. She smiled softly when she received the cup. She took a quick sip before clearing her throat. "That new one about the bender and the non-bender communicating through time."

"Oh, that sappy one?" she asked dryly.

"You saw it?" Opal asked in surprise.

"I heard about it. There's only so much to talk about when you're in a squad car staking out a place." Lin shrugged. "Keep going."

"Well, I thought that it was the perfect time to, yknow, have our first kiss." Opal flushed a light pink. "Right when I was leaning in he said we needed to talk," she whispered.

Lin waited patiently for her niece to continue but quickly realized she was finished. Once again, she regarded her with a blink. "So?" she asked again.

Opal huffed in frustration; a fresh set of tears threatening to spill down her cheeks. "So, people say that when they're going to break up with you. I just made up an excuse to leave and then came here."

Lin forced herself to not smile. She cleared her throat and shook her head. "That doesn't necessarily mean he's going to break up with you. He probably just actually has to tell you something."

"I highly doubt that," Korra commented. She was standing outside of Lin's window on the sidewalk of the Police Station. Asami was standing next to her, tugging on the Avatar's arm.

"Why are you eavesdropping?" Lin demanded.

"Your window is open, that's not exactly eavesdropping. Besides, you told us to come here, remember? To help you find some criminals or something." Korra jumped through the window. She placed her glider up against the wall. She turned to help pull Asami through the window, who shook her head with a glare. Asami rested her arms on the windowsill but remained outside.

Lin, once again, rolled her eyes before turning back to her niece. "Take it from someone who has been broken up with-"

"You mean dumped," Korra corrected.

"You were dumped?" Asami repeated in surprise.

"Yeah, she dated Tenzin and then he broke up with her to be with Pema," Korra filled her in.

"How did I not know about this?"

"I'm actually surprised you didn't know since your girlfriend has a big mouth," Lin snapped. Korra raised her eyebrows in shock before half-smile. "Listen, you're Bolin's first girlfriend and-"

"Technically," Korra interrupted.

"Korra, be quiet," Asami ordered.

"Maybe he was nervous since he never kissed someone he really liked?" Lin suggested. "Guys can be nervous about those things too. Maybe he didn't know what kissing would lead to…which I hopes isn't too much."

"Or," Korra stretched the word out, "maybe it's because his mover is coming out on mini-screen and he wanted to surprise you with a date night," she explained with a smile.

Opal's tears slowly came to a stop. She sniffed once more before starting to brighten. "Really?"

"Yeah," Korra confirmed. Next to her, Asami nodded in agreement. "He told me the entire plan. Asami helped him get an advanced copy. Don't worry Opal, Bolin is nuts about you."

"Oh," Opal said quietly. "That's good to hear. Although, Aunt Lin is probably right too. It took Bolin a while before holding my hand and at that point he needed to tell me that ever since he started lavabending, he tends to get sweat palms."

"So," Korra said slowly. "How'd Tenzin break up with you?" Asami groaned and slapped herself on the forehead. Opal shook her head slowly before the two took a few steps back.

Lin slowly turned towards Korra and glared. She slammed her hand onto her desk. All the metal in the room shook before being crushing in on itself. Her desk was bent in two, her chair was a pile of twisted metal, and the numerous small pieces of metal like pens, pins, paperclips, and other items quickly bent into sharp points before flying towards Korra's face.

She quickly airbent it away and they stuck into the wall next to her head.

"We're not talking about it," Lin muttered.

"Yes, ma'am," Korra said slowly. Asami grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back through the open window.